0287 - The Involvment in Igeres Hateshuva Part 2 (2)

00:00 First, I wanna mention that when I said in the previous recording that the pamphlet of the Igeres HaTshuva was printed in תש"ל, that was a slip of the tongue. The plate is It was printed in the beginning of תש"ח. תש"ח, ח"ו, that's when the rebbe first spoke about a certain part in the Igeres HaTshuva. And then in the beginning of תש"ח, he asked that they should print this pamphlet, as I explained before. And you could imagine what sort of koch there was by the Anash and by the Bochurim, especially in the Igeres HaTshuva then, since the rebbe's koch those years in the Igeres HaTshuva. So all the Bochurim were basically clear boki, remembered the whole of Igeres HaTshuva by heart. And not only Igeres HaTshuva, but also Hilchas Tshuva L'Rambam because a lot of the sichas of the rebbe in Igeres HaTshuva were connected to different halachas in the Rambam Hilchas Tshuva, so they were boki in Hilchas Tshuva. As I mentioned once that in that year, תש"ח, we met Rav Soloveitchik, and we spoke to him in Hilchas Tshuva of the Rambam, and that was by him a very special thing. He used to koch zachal at in Rambam and especially in Hilchas Tshuva. So he was surprised that Bochurim know Hilchas Tshuva L'Rambam. Even Bochurim who know how to learn, but they know Hilchas Nisukim and things like that, but not Hilchas Tshuva, and here he was surprised. But it was all because the rebbe's in Hilchas Tshuva. And as I said, these

01:10 sichas were, the mugadikar ones of these sichas were printed in Biurim, this kuntres called, the kuntresim called Biurim L'Igeres HaTshuva. Later on, the rebbe was magiya many of these sichas, and they are scattered throughout Likutey Sichos. But mainly in תש"ג they were printed in the sefer called Likutey Biurim Vesefer HaTanya Helek Sheni written by Rav Korv. We know Rav Korv wrote the first helek of Likutey Biurim and Tanya, which were his Biurim, and in it a lot of the Biurim of the rebbe. But this sefer, Helek Sheni, is only of the rebbe. That's the way the Helek Sheni was printed in the first . Later on, they changed this whole seder, but this is the way it was, only of the rebbe. That this was a sefer that was made up of three parts, all the Biurim of the rebbe in Igeres HaTshuva, then Biurim of the rebbe in Likutey Levi Yitzchak on Igeres HaTshuva, which were also bilti muge. Later on, the rebbe for Likutey Sichos magiya all the sichas of the rebbe on Likutey Levi Yitzchak on Igeres HaTshuva where the rebbe was muge. But at that time it wasn't muge yet, so bilti muge, they're printed in the sefer. And also then there is a helek of the sefer which is a sofer of more Biurim of the rebbe for the whole Tanya which did not go into the first helek of Likutey Biurim. And it says in the Hagdah, the pesach dover signed by Reb Yehoshua Korv, after he says what

02:31 the sefer is, it says this This was all done by the order of the rebbe. And I think that the rebbe was magiya this pesach dover, that this was by the order of the rebbe. And because this all was of the rebbe, so Reb Yehoshua Korv gave over some of the work to other people. So I remember the other people who worked on it was Reb Yehoshua Mundshain, alav hashalom, and Reb Yecheskel Minkowitz worked on it, and myself worked on it in collecting all these different things to put it into the sefer. And also we used to ask from time to time the rebbe certain shailas, and the rebbe would answer. And also we would give into the rebbe when we f- found in different sichas, like small Biurim on a piece of Tanya. So Reb Yehoshua Mundshain would write it up and give it into the rebbe, sign Reb Yehoshua Korv's name because he gave him permission to sign his name, asking the rebbe to be magiya. And the rebbe was magiya many pieces of Biurim on Tanya, and that went into the last helek of this sefer, the new Biurim of the rebbe in Tanya that was not printed in the first helek. Till finally, I remember the rebbe answered on the last one he was magiya a piece that he sent in, and the rebbe wrote that it's enough. How much are you gonna give in? I don't remember if he wrote, "I have no time," or whatever, but the rebbe was

03:54 already saying, "Enough. Don't give in any more." And they takke didn't give in any more, and that became the third part of this sefer, Biurim of the rebbe on the rest of Ta- on the whole of Tanya. So this is the sefer Biurim L'Igeres HaTshuv- uh, Likutey Biurim Vesefer HaTanya Helek Bet. The majority of it is Biurim of the rebbe on Igeres HaTshuva davka. The whole sefer is from the rebbe, but most of it is on Igeres HaTshuva. And this was all around the time when the rebbe's Igeres HaTshuva, and everyone's Igeres HaTshuva. It was shining mamash in Lubavitch. The of Igeres HaTshuva was so much tevas mokim. And this pamphlet that the rebbe said to give out was mafursim. They sent it out. They gave it out to different people. By the rebbe, this is such a chashuve thing to koch zach in Igeres HaTshuva.